TDF Stages Archive
An online theatre magazine
Read about NYC’s best theatre and dance productions and watch video interviews with innovative artists
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Why Theatre Row’s Makeover Is More Than Façade Deep
How the overhauled multi-theatre complex plans to help nonprofit companies while attracting new audiences
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Why ‘Hercules’ Needs Puppets of Mythic Proportions
How Obie winner James Ortiz is helping to bring Disney’s animated movie to the stage
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Why Alan Ariano Is Overjoyed to Finally Play a Filipino on Stage
Ma-Yi Theater Company presents the first musical created by Filipino Americans in NYC
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How Hal Prince Changed My Life as an Audience Member and an Artist
Editor’s note: In the summer of 2021, the author of this piece, Christopher Massimine, was exposed as a fabulist with a résumé riddled with lies . He subsequently resigned from his position at Arizona’s Pioneer Theatre, citing mental illness. When editing this essay in 2019, I removed multiple “facts” that I could not verify regarding his theatre credits. Admittedly, there’s no way to confirm his
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The Most Important New York Playwright You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
A Mac Wellman festival at The Flea hopes to earn the venerable dramatist new fans
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5 Theatres You Need to Know: Harlem Theatres
Where to see dance, music and theatre performances in the uptown Manhattan neighborhood
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Swarovski Crystals Are a Girl’s Best Friend in ‘Moulin Rouge!’
How Tony-winning costume designer Catherine Zuber helps make this spectacular spectacular
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Samantha Mathis Is Ready to ‘Make Believe’ On Stage
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How African-American Classics Are Inspiring a New Generation of Black Writers
The work of Ntozake Shange fuels six new plays at the annual 48Hours in…™ Harlem